rubin5
About

Who is
Sean Rubin?

I'm Sean Rubin. I direct and cut every frame that leaves this studio.

I trained at UNCSA, then went through the Kanbar Institute at NYU Tisch and graduated in 2024. I have spent about ten years working in film and television. I started early and never really stopped.

I started Rubin5 to make one thing well. A sizzle built to make a financier feel a film before a frame of it is real. Everything else I have made, the fight campaigns, the political work, the launch films, was practice for the same problem: getting people to commit money to something that does not exist yet.

If you hire this studio, you work directly with me, from the first call to the final file.

Track record

What I've done.

The whole list, as plainly as I can put it.

Victory Fighting League, Times Square Led the creative campaign for the first officially sanctioned MMA event ever held in Times Square, then a second at Terminal 5.
Writer, Director, Editor
Kinney Zalesne for DC Led the film work for her campaign for the District's seat in the U.S. House, from early positioning through final ads, across broadcast, social and fundraising. It raised more on its first day than any single day haul for political office in recent DC history.
Writer, Director, Editor
Anissa Meksen Cut the campaign film featuring the world championship kickboxer.
Editor
Features up to thirty million dollars Sizzle and preproduction materials for features budgeted up to thirty million dollars.
Sizzle, Preproduction
Startup launch films Pivoters, shot in Miami. UPPP. Blind Age. Avistar. Venture backed teams across wellness, productivity and social impact, each piece built to speak to investors, users and press at once.
Writer, Director, Editor
Period feature, in development Currently cutting a fundraising sizzle for a World War Two period piece.
In progress
The name

Why Rubin5?

Rubin5 is named after the 5 Star Ranch, a place of magic and family I visited every Thanksgiving growing up. The ranch was sold last year. The name is for my grandparents.

A large family group riding a flatbed wagon up the drive toward the main house at the 5 Star Ranch
Cattle standing in the shade of a live oak in an open pasture
A cap embroidered with the Five Star Wagyu Ranch brand, five stars set in a circle
The pool table in the ranch house, cues laid across the felt under a long iron light
A bronze of a rearing horse on a stone plinth on the ranch lawn

Dedicated to my grandparents, Jackie and Sherwin Siff, for making every Thanksgiving a magical time for us growing up: the scavenger hunts, the obstacle courses, and the delicious Thanksgiving meals.

Start a project

Tell me what
you're building.

A logline and a line about who you are pitching is enough to start. I read every brief myself.

Direct sean@rubin5studio.com
Studio New York
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